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OLG Meeting Notes Mar 7, 2003 ...

Ocotillo Online Learning Group
Meeting Mar 7, 2003

District Office
Training Services Computer Classroom (3rd Floor)

Welcome and Introductions
Anna Rosa Lampis (GateWay Community College) and Sandra Wells (Phoenix College)

What's New in Online Learning at Your Campus (20 min)
all participants
We will spend some time sharing with each other what is new in instructional technology for on-line learning across all the different campuses of the Maricopa district.

• District Office - Outlook 2003 training will be available in April and May of this year. The training department will be offering stand alone training only. The Employee Organizational Learning Team will be offering supervisory courses.
• Phoenix College - Summer Conference Training - their workshops have evolved into modules that they hope to turn into year round training for such software packages as WebCT, Dreamweaver, and Respondus.
• South Mountain - Continued Blackboard interest and involvement; working more and more with adjunct faculty - they seem to be the ones making the most requests - The campus mailed out training calendars and a letter to adjunct faculty encouraging them to participate. Most workshops are modularized to 1 hour.
• Chandler-Gilbert - Started a pilot of Blackboard 6; only using 10 faculty; experiencing hicc-ups.
• Rio Salado - Have added "mini-syllabi" to the online course schedule. So students can see what kinds of coursework they will be responsible for.

Anna Rosa suggested that we exchange our processes for Blackboard 6; what's working; what's not. Should we use the distribution list for the Online Learning Group? (DL-OCO-OLG)

Building Online Communities with MIDAS
(Angela Ambrosia, Rio Salado College)
Angela uses MIDAS as a message center, grading, and for exam content.

As a message center - students go to the bulletin board for discussion; they can reply to the instructor, to the bulletin board, or to both. She also has her students in different classes reply to each other on various topics. The software allows her to combine her classes and even select specific students for a discussion. If students want to share or create assignments between English and Psychology, for example, then the student would have to sign up for both classes.

Please see some of these other resources for online communication:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/olg/resources.php?id=2

RoboDemo demo
Kurt Chambers (Phoenix College)
Build interactive instruction with audio, hyperlinks and more.

RoboDemo is software that can combine text and voice; it also moves the mouse around the screen to help the user select a specific pull down menu (for example). It can import PowerPoint, Sound, video and captions to enhance any slide presentation.
http://www.ehelp.com/products/robodemo/

Phoenix college is using this software to share simple instructions, like how to get started in WebCT. It has reduced the number of calls to the helpdesk considerably. It's uses include tutorials for WebCT, Blackboard, and labs, along with eLearning that allows interaction between a presentation and learner, and you can export to Flash, MS Word, to your Pocket PC, you can send documents through email and print from this software as well.

RoboDemo System Requirements

• Hardware
• Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, or XP
• 32/64 MB of memory (64/128 MB recommended)
• 12.5 MB available disk space
• Pentium II 200MHz or faster processor
• Software and accessories
• Internet Explorer 4.0 or later
• Microphone for recording sound
• Speakers and sound card
• Internet connection to obtain software updates and to publish movies to the Web
• Mouse or other pointing device

Here are some examples of what RoboDemo can do:

• WebCT
  http://www.pc.maricopa.edu/departments/ltd/Robodemo/webctinst.htm
• Medical Assisting
  http://www.pc.maricopa.edu/departments/ltd/webresources/MACert.htm
• RoboDemo Tutorials
  http://www.ehelp.com/products/robodemo/demos/
• Tooling University
  http://www.toolingu.com/quickstart_student.aspx
• Capital University:
  Êhttp://www.capital.edu/cc/it/bb_course_access_flash.html

Similar tools include:

• Camtasia
  (see one example from Harvard...)
• ViewletBuilder
  see an exmaple of demonstrating a blackboard training example
• HyperCam
• CamStudio

Next Meeting
April 11, 2003 at Mesa Community College. On the plate so far...

• Mesa's Automatic Homepage Tool
• Statistics Lab Online
• Online Games for Biology Courses
• Hands-On with Hot Potatoes